Steve Coogan

A womb with a view.

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I want my work to be judged, not me.

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That was liquid football

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Hitler was nice to dogs.

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I wasn't a naturally confident, extravert, outgoing person.

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If things don't come easy to you, you have to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

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A woman wearing a revealing dress will always be sexier than a naked woman.

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I find impressionists slightly annoying, really.

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Look at the 18th century. There was a lot more freedom going on.

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It's arguably the best newspaper in the world.

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The truth is somewhere in the middle of funny and serious.

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You really have got lots of issues! Yeah, of 'What Car Magazine'!

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I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you.

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What terrifies me is that I might somehow endorse that view so people think they don't have to read books anymore.

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My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids…

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I think we all have a slightly gay gene inside us, don't we? It might be 0.00001 per cent as mine is,…

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I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

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If it was just the potatoes that were affected, at the end of the day you will pay the price if you're…

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But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

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I went on tour and I wouldn't say I was bored with the Perrier show but I started doing this stuff that…

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It may seem like improv because it flows quite naturally, and a little bit of leeway for improvisation is good, but you…

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I've met people who've dismissed me, and then they find out that they like my work, and suddenly their attitude changes toward…

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Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that…

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If you got the balls to follow something through, you can end up being the coolest, smartest guy in the room, because…

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The irony is, of course, that many of the values that I was raised with, that I think are very important, that…

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When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of…

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I like the fact that people come together who have shared values, but I don't believe that a man died 2,000 years…

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When Americans talks about Europeans, they are thinking Britain and the rest of Europe. When we [ Britains] talk about Europeans, we…

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I never had any desire to be famous. I find people who do really sad. I genuinely feel sorry for them because…

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I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy.…

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I do like to make people cringe. That discomfort, tension, embarrassment, pain - all of those things interest me, and not through…

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It's like aversion therapy. You keep doing scenes over and over again with three women in the bed with you, and we…

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The British often shy away from any cinematic interpretation of real sex. They sometimes have what I call "subtle sex," which is…

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People come up to me in supermarkets and demand humour. And the less amusing I am, the more they piss themselves. So…

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I think I'm good with actors. I like directing actors. I also like to show up and just do an acting gig.…

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All drama teachers are very effusive, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical. Those people don't…

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I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

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It is not true that sex degrades women... if it is any good.

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In my mind God made Adam and Eve, he didn't make Adam and Steve.

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If you do something very successful, you will then be defined by it.

— Steve Coogan